Randy Schekman

Nobel prize winning American cell biologist

Randy Wayne Schekman (born December 30, 1948) is an American cell biologist. He works at the University of California, Berkeley.[6] He is the editor-in-chief of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Annual Review of Cell and Developmental Biology.[1][7][8][9]

Randy Schekman
Schekman in 2015.
Born
Randy Wayne Schekman

(1948-12-30) December 30, 1948 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUCLA (BA)
Stanford University (PhD)
Known forEditor-in-chief of PNAS[1] and eLife[2]
Awards
  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1992)
  • Gairdner Foundation International Award (1996)
  • Lasker award (2002)
  • Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize (2002)
  • Massry Prize (2010)
  • E. B. Wilson Medal (2010)
  • ForMemRS (2013)[3]
  • Nobel Prize in
    Physiology or Medicine
    (2013)[4]
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of California, Berkeley
UCLA
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Stanford University
ThesisResolution and Reconstruction of
a multienzyme DNA replication reaction
 (1975)
Doctoral advisorArthur Kornberg
Doctoral studentsDavid Julius[5]
David Baker
Websitemcb.berkeley.edu/labs/schekman
royalsociety.org/people/randy-schekman

He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1992. He won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Rothman and Thomas C. Südhof for their work on cell membrane vesicle trafficking.[10]

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